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September 13, 2013

Dont forget to send us your flowers and metal projects by this Sunday night. All the details can be found in this post.

Louise loves how the industrial style metal embellishments and the beautiful subtle designs of the pattern paper coordinate so perfectly. The colours are beautify coordinated and suit both male and female themed photos.

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These 2 beautiful layouts were created by the wonderful talent of Ania Dabrowska. Ania has created two amazing product releases with Prima her latest line is featured in the projects being showcased.

This wonderful layout was created by talented Prima Design Team member Kasia Krzyminska. Kasia has created this layout to showcase the new Finnabair range of products.

This wonderful journal was created by another talented Prima DT member, Kelly Foster. Isn't it just fabulous?!

This fabulous cushion was created by the talented Prima DT member Delaina Burns. Delaina has showcased the versatility of Prima's new Finnabair releases with her wonderfully creative design.

June 16, 2013

Stacey used Prima’s Rondelle collection to create these two very different pages full of layers of gorgeous detail. She has focused on two different colour palettes from the same pages to give very different looks to her layouts.

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What is not to love about the new release Prima Sunrise Sunset range. the vintage trinkets coordinate perfectly with the grungy patterned paper range and metallic coloured flowers. Mix in a little paint media and you have a fun and fab layout design.

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Jane stamp this adorable image on one of the papers from the A4 pad using a brown ink, she cut it out and arrange it on her card with a collection Divine flowers. The diamante frame was cut from the crystal sheet and a part of the packaging was added behind it.

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Jane cut out a lovely flower fairy image from one of the A4 papers and layered it on her card with a panel cut from the packaging with words on it. She added some crystals and flowers to finish the design.

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This Beautiful layout featuring many of the beautiful Prima flowers was created by the fabulous Eila Sandberg. Thank you Eila for sharing your wonderful Prima creativity.

These are two of many beautiful layouts created by Prima DT Member Kasia Krzymińska. We loved her mixture of arty grunge and delicate beauty

May 04, 2013

Danielle loved the old fashioned roses and film-style photography in Prima's Hello Pastel paper collection, and based her layout on this soft feel. Touches of green, aqua, teal and yellow add a playful touch, with a slightly rustic feel from the vintage mechanicals. Danielle recommends the washi tape for touches of colour and pattern at random on your projects!

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Sue has designed this layout using the lovely Divine collection from Prima. The Divine collection was designed by Jodie Lee and is a beautiful Shabby Chic range with pretty feminine images. Sue used the "Chanson" paper in the range to create that lovely quilt like background for her photo. The gorgeous butterflies on the page are some of Prima's canvas range. If you haven't tried them before, give them a go! You can alter the colour of the embellishments with ink or mists. Sue used Georgia Peach and Primrose Colour Shine mists to colour her butterflies.

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We love the design of this gorgeous page, created by Lene Bjornerud using Prima's new Lyric collection. The mix of butterflies, bees and clocks is just perfect!

April 23, 2013

We’re excited to introduce a new series here on the Aussie blog. Inspired by romance, love and all things wedding-ey, we’re taking ordinary scrapbooking supplies, gorgeous Sizzix dies and some talented designers and providing you each week with wedding inspiration to die for. Each of our design team has been challenged to create a whole wedding story, from save-the-dates to invitations, placecards, favours, and even post-wedding scrapbook layouts.

We hope you enjoy what they come up with.

Stacey Young was so excited for this wedding series assignment and we think she kicks it off in style. Of course she choose to use none other than Prima papers and flowers to create a gorgeous, romantic, shabby story. She choose the elegant and versatile line of Engraver and popped her own splash of pink colour into the brown, beige and black mix. With the help of a lace Sizzlits border die all of her elements complemented each other beautifully.

To construct the Invitation, Stacey started out with a piece of cardstock and 2 folds towards the centre. Four folds were then made from the centre point to each corner. Leaving a centimetre space she then created another four folds, 2 towards the top and 2 towards the bottom of the invitation. It was then easy enough to adhere the lace border to all of the edges shown, just cutting the pieces to fit. Finished off with some string and a flower.

Stacey's napkin holder was so simple to make. She cut a piece of patterned paper about 5 cm wide. Using the Sizzlits lace border she adhered a piece to fit on each edge of the cylinder. She then wrapped some string around and tied in a bow and topped it off with a misted Prima flower.

As a little thankyou gift Stacey decorated a small jar. You may also like to fill it with something sweet. Although this option may seem a little expensive it's amazing what you might find in op shops or when buying in bulk you are likely to receive a nice deal.

Stacey's place card was also quick and simple. The border die was once again added to the top and bottom of the patterned paper. String was attached to the top and tied off at the side. Flowers were adhered with a touch of Gesso and more misting.

Stacey created a beautiful centrepiece using a birdcage and plenty of gorgeous Prima flowers.

Stacey adhered the patterned paper to each edge of the numbers. Misting a little colour and then placing the lace border on the edges to tie the whole theme together.

Stacey's wedding layout is a lovely match for her theme. Ten years ago when she married, pink was also her chosen colour. She also incorporated the Sizzlits lace borders into her layout. The Engraver collection is a wonderful paper range to use for your wedding, perfectly neutral to add whatever colour your theme may be.

February 22, 2013

Stacey choose the stunning Firefly collection for her Prima creation today. She took the bold pink/orange and yellow colours from the Firefly paper and matched them with her beautiful flower arrangement. Stacey choose to use a mask as a starting point on her layout and added some lovely touches of stamping and Shabby Resin pieces.

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Jill wanted to turn this fabulous mixed media book into words that inspire her. Using a combination of paint and glimmer mist to give a theme to the softness of the book, she has then stamped inspiring quotes onto each page.

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With 8 year old Abby in the family Nic Howard never has a shortage of cute photos, and the gorgeous pinks and neutrals of the Rondelle collection are perfect for girl pages. she used a sketch which allowed her to choose one of her favourite photos and build an Anna Dabrowska inspired floral cluster around it by incorporating many of the new release flowers, Rondelle embellishments and some mistable canvas pieces. Nic says she adores the new small crystals and loved finishing the layout off with the details they added.

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The above two layouts are kindly shared with us by Prima Design team member Steph Devlin. She too has used the Firefly collection on both of these stunning designs. It is amazing the colours you can take from this collection and Steph takes both colour combinations to the extreme.

October 12, 2012

Today we’re thrilled to introduce another new design team member to you – her name is Leanne Whitby and she is a cardmaker extraordinaire! Her shabby style and attention to detail is sublime and, as you’ll see below, one of her cards in the mail would brighten anyone’s day. For her first assignment she is showcasing the beautiful Prima Rosarian collection. We welcome her and look forward to sharing more of her style with you in future posts.

Prima’s 6x6” paper pads are just perfect for card making. The Rosarian colour palette is bright and bold but has enough variation in the colours and patterns to allow you to create cards that are all unique and different. They also lend themselves to be inked, sanded, distressed and torn to add a touch of shabbiness. By adding in some junkyard findings, complementary Prima flowers, handmade miniature flowers, subtle borders and labels from Sizzix and Memory Box dies Leanne’s cards then have that extra special detail about them!

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Suz dug some old photos out of a shoebox for this page, of her first trip to Paris many years ago. The range is, of course, Welcome to Paris, and its nostalgic beauty and art deco style is reminiscent of the fabulousness of the city that Suz remembers so well. She has cut out and layered the patterned papers on a background of a texture pasted ArtC damask template, and then added co-ordinating flowers, bling and embellishments that Prima is so good at.

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This beautifully layered page was created by Larissa Albernaz from the Prima Design Team. We just adore how she uses the papers, embellishments and flowers in the collection to create this colourful layout.

The talented Erin Blegen has allowed us to share her beautiful take on the Firefly collection. Her design is wonderful and her use of Shabby Chic Resin and colourful flowers make this a truly beautiful Prima piece.

Finally, Felicity Wilson from the Prima Design team put together some beautifully layered cards using the Rosarian collection as well. Her use of the distressing techniques and layering mean her cards are full of detail and a delight to receive.

August 05, 2012

Kim is a big fan of words and phrases on her scrapbooking layouts and so the Doodle Deux range by Prima was just perfect as it papers and embellishments include a selection of phrases just perfect for scrapbooking "relationship" pages. The phrases on the background paper in this layout provided all the journaling Kim needed for this gorgeous family photo by Janine Kaye.

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Prima’s beautiful products makes it ridiculously easy to make a beautiful page in no time. Here Suz used the Fairy Belle range, including the lush trims and gorgeous art tiles to create this soft and pretty page.

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Steph Devlin has kindly shared a number of beautiful layouts that she has made using Prima products. Steph is a member of the Prima Design Team.

Janine Koczwara created this LO using the Prima MeadowLark collection and the Felt Flowers. She concentrated on the purple to complement the photo of her daughter, showing how you can select a colour from a paper range and use only papers or portions of the papers containing that colour to create a dynamic LO.

May 20, 2012

Prima is one of those brands that you can’t help but fall in LOVE with. Leeann adores everything that prima brings out. The one item that Leeann adores the most is the fairy tale roses. Leeann has used a mixed of roses, vines and lily’s and created a cluster under the photo. She also used a couple more of the roses and created smaller clusters around the page and finished off by adding the resin birdhouse. The base pattern paper is also by prima and adds a touch of lovability to this layout.

What is there not to love about Prima Songbird collection?! Jane is in love with this range and has created this card using the 6x6 paper pad, trinkets, pixie-vine, Kennedy vintage flowers and she adores the black wrapped genie stones!

Jane used one of the Prima Songbird 6x6 papers that looks like a patchwork, she said it saved time in not having to cut and arranging them yourself! She then stamp the Songbird branch numerously in the top left-hand corner to add more detail and then collated a spray of flowers and trinkets over it.

Here we have two amazing pages created by Stacey Young who also happens to be one of the many talented designers for Prima. Stacey puts a lot of work into each of her pages; there is an enormous amount of detail and technique. Thank you Stacey for letting us share some of your amazing creations.